2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
14 - MODE command: correctly return ERR_UNKNOWNMODE(472) numeric for
15 unknown channel modes, instead of ERR_UMODEUNKNOWNFLAG(501).
16 - ISUPPORT(005) numeric: add "O", "R", and "z" modes to "CHANMODES".
17 - Limit the number of list items in the reply of LIST (100), WHO (25),
18 WHOIS (10), and WHOWAS (25) commands.
19 - LIST command: compare pattern case insensitive.
20 - Limit the MODE command to handle a maximum number of 5 channel modes
21 that require an argument (+Ibkl) per call and report this number
22 in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric: "MODES=5".
23 - Fix handling of channel mode sequence with/without arguments.
24 For example, don't generate wrong error messages when handling
25 "MODE #chan +IIIIItn *!aa@b *!bb@c *!cc@d *!dd@e *!ee@f".
26 - When sending data on a connection, only try to get the type of
27 the client if there still is one assigned. This could trigger an
28 assertion and end the daemon in some error paths.
29 - Don't try to close already closed/invalid sockets to forked child
30 processes. This could potentially crash the daemon in some cases
31 with IDENT lookups enabled.
32 - WHOIS command: make sure that the reply ends with RPL_ENDOFWHOIS,
33 don't answer queries for IRC servers, make sure mask matching is
34 case-insensitive, and that RPL_ENDOFWHOIS numeric is sent with the
35 unmodified mask (like it has been received from the client).
36 - LINKS command: support <mask> parameter to limit the reply.
37 - Add 1 second penalty for every further target on PRIVMSG/NOTICE
38 commands: this reduces the possibility of flooding channels with
39 commands like "PRIVMSG/NOTICE #a,#n,#c,... :message" a little bit.
40 Problem noticed by Cahata, thanks!
41 - Display correct error message when "Server{UID|GID}" variabe in the
42 configuration file is invalid (not a number and no existing user).
43 - Update Copyright notices for 2012 :-)
44 - JOIN command: don't stop handling of channel lists when a single
45 channel cannot be joined (because of bad name, wrong key or channel
46 limit reached), but report an error and continue. And don't check
47 the channel limit and don't report with "too many channels" when
48 trying to join a channel that the client already is a member of.
49 - ISON command: reply with the correct upper-/lowercase nick names.
50 - New configuration option "PAMIsOptional": when set, clients not
51 sending a password are still allowed to connect: they won't become
52 "identified" and keep the "~" character prepended to their supplied
53 user name. See "man 5 ngircd.conf" for details.
54 - Fixed handling of WHO commands. This fixes two bugs: "WHO <nick>"
55 returned nothing at all if the user was "+i" (reported by Cahata,
56 thanks) and "WHO <nick|nickmask>" returned channel names instead
57 of "*" when the user was member of a (visible) channel.
58 - Fixed some spelling errors in documentation and code comments
59 (Thanks to Christoph Biedl).
60 - contrib/Debian/control: Update and complete "Build-Depends" and
61 update our Debian package descriptions with "official" ones.
62 - Fixed typo in two error messages.
63 - LUSERS reply: only count channels that are visible to the requesting
64 client, so the existence of secret channels is no longer revealed by
65 using LUSERS. Reported by Cahata, thanks!
66 - Unknown user and channel modes no longer stop the mode parser, but
67 are simply ignored. Therefore modes after the unknown one are now
68 handled. This is how ircd2.10/ircd2.11/ircd-seven behave, at least.
69 Reported by Cahata, thanks!
70 - README: Update list of implemented commands.
71 - Log better error messages when rejecting clients.
72 - Implement IRC commands "GLINE" and "KLINE" to ban users. G-Lines are
73 synchronized between server on peering, K-Lines are local only.
74 - Xcode: update project file for Xcode 4.2 and define HAVE_GAI_STRERROR
75 for Mac OS X Xcode builds.
76 - ./configure: Fix logic and quoting of poll() detection code: only use
77 poll() when poll.h exists as well.
78 - Suppress 'Can't create pre-defined channel: invalid name: ""' message.
79 - whois-test: handle local hostname = "localhost.localdomain" using the
80 pattern "localhost*" for valid local hostnames.
81 - sample-ngircd.conf: show correct default for "PAM" variable: The
82 default of "PAM" is "yes" when ngIRCd has been configured to use it,
83 so show the correct default value in the sample configuration file.
85 - Update GPL 2 license text to current version.
86 - Only close "unrelated" sockets in forked child processes: This fixes
87 the problem that ngIRCd can't do any IDENT lookups because of the
88 socket has already been closed in the child process.
89 The bug has been introduced starting with ngIRCd 17 ... :-(
90 (commit ID 6ebb31ab35e)
91 - Added doc/Modes.txt: document modes supported by ngIRCd.
92 - Implement user mode "R": indicates that the nick name of this user
93 is "registered". This mode isn't handled by ngIRCd itself, but must
94 be set and unset by IRC services like Anope.
95 - Implement channel mode "R": only registered users (having the user
96 mode "R" set) are allowed to join this channel.
97 - Test suite: bind to loopback (127.0.0.1) interface only.
98 - New 2nd message "Nickname too long" for error code 432.
99 - Xcode: Mac OS X config.h: support 10.5 as well as 10.6/10.7 SDK.
100 - Xcode: exclude more Xcode 4 specific directories in ".gitignore".
101 - Disconnect directly linked servers sending QUIT. Without this,
102 the server becomes removed from the network and the client list,
103 but the connection isn't shut down at all ...
104 - contrib/ngindent: detect "gindent" as GNU indent.
105 - Handle unknown user and channel modes: these modes are saved and
106 forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
107 - Handle channel user modes 'a', 'h', and 'q' from remote servers.
108 These channel user modes aren't used for anything at the moment,
109 but ngIRCd knows that these three modes are "channel user modes"
110 and not "channel modes", that is that these modes take an "nick name"
111 argument. Like unknown user and channel modes, these modes are saved
112 and forwarded to other servers, but ignored otherwise.
113 - Correctly inform clients when other servers change their user modes.
114 This is required for some services to work correctly.
115 - Test suite: make getpid.sh work even when run as root.
116 - Spoofed prefixes: close connection on non-server links only.
117 On server-links, spoofed prefixes can happen because of the
118 asynchronous nature of the IRC protocol. So don't break server-
119 links, only log a message and ignore the command. (Closes #113)
121 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
123 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
124 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
125 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
127 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
128 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
129 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
130 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
131 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
132 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
133 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
134 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
136 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
137 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
138 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
139 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
140 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
141 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
142 servers from TOR or I2P.
143 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
144 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
145 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
146 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
147 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
148 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
149 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
150 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
151 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
152 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
153 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
154 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
155 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
156 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
157 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
158 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
159 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
160 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
161 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
162 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
163 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
164 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
165 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
167 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
168 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
169 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
170 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
171 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
172 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
173 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
174 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
175 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
176 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
177 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
178 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
179 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
180 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
181 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
182 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
183 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
184 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
185 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
186 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
187 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
188 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
189 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
190 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
191 variable description.
192 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
193 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
194 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for
195 every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
196 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
197 every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
198 supplied by the IRC client.
199 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
200 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
201 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
202 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
203 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
204 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
205 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
206 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
207 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
208 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
209 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
210 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
211 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
212 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
213 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
214 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
215 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
216 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
217 the client is not joined to this channel.
218 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
219 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
220 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
221 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
222 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
223 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
224 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
225 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
226 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
227 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
228 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
231 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
233 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
234 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
235 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
236 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
237 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
238 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
239 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
240 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
241 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
242 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
243 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
244 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
245 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
247 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
249 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
250 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
251 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
252 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
254 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
255 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updateed project file
256 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
257 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
258 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
259 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
260 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
261 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
262 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
264 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
265 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
266 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
267 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
268 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
269 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
270 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
271 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
272 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
273 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
274 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
275 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
277 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
278 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
279 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
280 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
281 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
282 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
283 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
284 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
285 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
286 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
287 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
288 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
289 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
290 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
291 using the command line parameters.
292 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
293 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
294 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
295 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
296 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
297 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
298 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
299 client lag debug-output is working again.
300 - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
301 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
302 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
303 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
304 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
305 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
306 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
307 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
308 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
309 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
310 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
311 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
312 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
313 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
314 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
315 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
316 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
317 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
318 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
319 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
320 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
321 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
322 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
323 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
324 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
325 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
326 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
328 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
330 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
332 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
333 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
334 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
335 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
336 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
337 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
338 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
339 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
340 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
341 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
342 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
344 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
345 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
346 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
347 - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
348 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
349 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
350 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
351 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
352 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
353 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
354 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
355 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
356 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
357 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
358 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
359 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
360 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
361 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
362 to join such a channel.
363 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
364 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
365 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
366 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
368 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
370 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
372 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
373 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
374 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
375 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
376 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
377 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
378 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
380 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
381 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
382 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
383 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
384 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
385 to ease generating platform reports.
386 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
387 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
388 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
389 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
390 - Fix connection counter.
391 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
392 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
394 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
396 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
397 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
398 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
399 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
400 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
401 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
402 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
403 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
404 - Fix server list announcement.
405 - Do not remove hostnames from info text.
407 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
409 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
411 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
412 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
413 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
414 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
415 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
416 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
417 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
418 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
419 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
420 individual channel keys for different users.
421 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
422 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
423 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
424 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
425 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
426 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
427 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
428 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
429 (closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
431 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
433 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
434 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
436 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
437 - New version number scheme :-)
438 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
439 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
440 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
441 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
442 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
443 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
444 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
445 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
446 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
447 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
448 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
449 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
450 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
451 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
452 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
453 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
454 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
455 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
456 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
457 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
458 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
459 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
460 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
462 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
464 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
465 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
466 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
467 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
468 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
469 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
470 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
471 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
472 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
473 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
474 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
476 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
478 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
479 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
480 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
481 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
483 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
484 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
485 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
486 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
487 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
488 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
489 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
491 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
492 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
493 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
495 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
496 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
497 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
498 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
500 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
501 nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
502 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
503 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
504 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
505 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
506 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
507 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
509 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
511 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
512 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
513 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
514 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
515 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
517 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
519 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
520 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
521 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
523 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
524 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if hostname is >= 64.
525 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
526 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
527 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
528 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
529 length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
530 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
531 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
532 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
533 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
534 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
535 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
536 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
537 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
538 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
539 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
540 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
541 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
542 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
543 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
544 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
545 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
546 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
547 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
548 same group is already in progress.
549 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
552 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
554 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
555 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
557 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
559 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
560 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
563 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
565 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
566 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
568 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
569 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
570 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
571 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
572 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
573 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
574 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
575 (even when using epoll(), see above).
576 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
577 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
579 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
581 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
582 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
583 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
584 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
585 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
586 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
587 join predefined channels.
588 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
589 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
591 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
593 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
595 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
596 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
597 - Minor documentation updates.
599 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
600 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
601 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
602 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
603 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
604 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
605 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
606 to the file descriptor of the connection).
607 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
608 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
609 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
610 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
611 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
612 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
613 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
614 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
615 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
616 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
617 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
618 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
619 lookup to prevent spoofing.
620 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
621 addition to the select() interface.
623 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
625 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
626 connections can't be established.
627 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
628 resolver subprocesses could be created.
629 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
630 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
632 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
634 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
635 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
636 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
637 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
638 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
640 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
642 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
643 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
644 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
645 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
646 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
647 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
648 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
649 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
650 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
651 is member of multiple channels.
652 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
653 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
654 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
655 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
656 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
657 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
658 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
659 - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes.
660 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
661 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
662 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
663 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
664 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
665 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
666 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
667 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
668 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
669 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
670 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
671 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
672 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
673 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
674 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
675 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
676 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
677 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
678 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
679 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
680 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
681 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
682 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
683 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
684 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
685 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
686 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
687 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
688 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
691 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
693 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
694 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
695 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
696 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
698 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
700 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
701 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
702 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
703 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
704 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
705 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
706 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
707 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
708 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
709 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
710 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
712 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
714 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
715 - Added some more debug code ...
716 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
717 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
718 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
720 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
722 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
724 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
726 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
727 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
728 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
729 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
730 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
732 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
733 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
734 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
735 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
736 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
737 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
738 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
739 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
740 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
741 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
742 when closing down connections.
743 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
744 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
745 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
746 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
747 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
748 parameter has been added.
749 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
750 - Results of the resolver (hostnames and IDENT names) are discarded after
751 the client is successfully registered with the server.
752 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
753 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
754 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
755 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
756 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
757 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
759 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
761 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
762 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
763 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
764 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
765 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
766 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
768 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
770 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
771 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
772 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
773 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
775 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
777 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
778 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
779 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
780 require more resources block the client for a short time.
781 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
782 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
783 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
784 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
785 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
786 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
787 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
788 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
789 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
790 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
791 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
792 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
794 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
796 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
797 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
798 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
799 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
800 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
801 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
802 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
804 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
806 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
807 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
809 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
810 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
811 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
812 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
813 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
814 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
815 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
816 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
817 socket failures occurred.
818 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
820 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
821 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
822 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
823 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
824 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
825 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
826 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
827 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
828 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
829 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
830 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
831 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
832 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
833 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
834 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
835 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
836 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
837 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
838 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
839 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
840 german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
841 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
842 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
843 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
844 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
845 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
846 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
847 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
848 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
849 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
850 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
851 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
852 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
853 configure to enable it.
854 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
855 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
856 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
857 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
858 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
859 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
860 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
862 ngIRCd 0.6.1, 2003-01-21
864 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
865 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
866 can kill only valid users now.
867 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
868 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
869 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
870 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
871 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
872 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
873 are synchronized between servers now, too.
874 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
875 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
876 its modes or modes of its members.
877 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
878 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
881 Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
883 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
885 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 2002-12-23
886 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
887 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
888 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
889 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
891 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 2002-12-18
892 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
893 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
894 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
895 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
896 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
897 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
898 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
899 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
900 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
901 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
902 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
903 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
904 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
905 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
906 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
907 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
908 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
909 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asynchronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
910 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
911 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
912 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
913 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
914 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
915 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
916 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
917 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
918 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
919 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
920 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
921 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
922 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
923 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
924 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
925 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
926 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
927 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
928 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
929 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
930 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
931 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
932 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
933 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
934 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
935 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
936 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
937 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
938 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
940 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
942 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
943 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
944 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
945 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
946 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
947 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
948 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
949 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
950 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
951 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
952 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
953 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
955 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
957 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
958 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
959 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
960 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
961 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
962 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
963 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
964 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
965 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
966 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
967 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
969 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
971 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
972 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
973 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
975 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
977 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
978 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
979 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
980 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
981 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
982 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
983 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
984 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
985 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
986 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
987 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
988 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
990 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
992 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
993 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
994 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
995 Plattformen kompatibler.
997 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
998 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
1000 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
1001 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
1002 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
1003 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
1004 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
1005 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
1006 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
1007 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
1008 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
1009 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
1010 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
1011 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
1012 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
1013 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
1014 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
1015 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
1016 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
1017 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
1018 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
1019 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
1020 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
1021 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
1022 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
1023 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
1024 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1025 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
1026 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
1027 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
1028 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
1029 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
1030 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
1031 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
1032 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
1033 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
1034 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
1035 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
1036 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
1037 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
1038 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
1039 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO synchronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
1040 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
1041 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
1042 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
1043 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
1044 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
1045 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
1046 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
1047 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
1048 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
1049 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
1050 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
1051 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
1052 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
1053 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
1055 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
1057 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
1058 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
1059 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
1061 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
1063 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
1064 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
1065 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
1066 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
1068 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
1070 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
1071 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
1072 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
1073 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
1074 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
1075 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
1076 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
1077 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
1079 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
1081 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
1082 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
1083 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
1084 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
1085 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
1086 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
1087 zusaetzliche Informationen.
1088 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
1089 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
1090 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
1092 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
1093 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
1094 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
1095 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
1096 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
1097 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
1098 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
1099 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
1100 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
1101 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
1102 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
1103 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
1104 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
1105 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
1106 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
1107 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
1108 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
1109 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
1110 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
1111 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
1112 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
1114 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
1116 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
1117 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
1118 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
1119 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
1120 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
1121 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
1122 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
1123 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
1124 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
1125 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
1126 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
1127 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
1128 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
1129 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
1130 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
1131 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1132 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
1133 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
1134 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
1135 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
1136 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
1137 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
1138 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
1139 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
1140 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
1141 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
1142 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
1143 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
1144 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asynchron connectiert und
1145 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
1146 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
1147 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
1148 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
1150 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
1152 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
1153 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
1154 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
1155 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
1156 an den Client geliefert.
1158 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
1160 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
1161 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
1162 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1163 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
1164 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
1165 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
1166 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
1167 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
1168 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
1169 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
1170 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
1172 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
1174 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
1175 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
1176 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
1177 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
1178 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
1179 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
1180 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
1181 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
1182 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
1183 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
1184 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
1185 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
1186 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
1187 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
1188 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
1189 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
1190 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
1191 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
1192 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
1193 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
1194 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
1196 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
1198 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
1199 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
1200 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
1201 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
1202 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
1203 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
1204 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
1205 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
1206 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
1207 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
1208 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
1209 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
1210 Server beantwortet zu werden.
1211 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
1212 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
1214 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
1216 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
1217 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
1218 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
1219 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
1220 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
1221 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
1222 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
1223 - Asynchroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
1224 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
1225 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
1226 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
1227 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
1228 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
1229 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
1230 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
1231 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
1232 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
1233 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
1234 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
1236 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1238 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)